CEDAR RAPIDS — Linn County lost up to an estimated 1 million trees in the 2020 derecho, and one Marion nonprofit organization has made a dent in replacing them over the past four years — one tree at a ...

Thousands of trees are being planted by Eastern Iowa educators as a part of the Monarch Research Project Planting Forward to help replace trees lost in the derecho. Planting Forward is a grant program ...

Alana McKean and Susan Helm stop by the studio to give us the scoop on the upcoming Illinois Native Plant Sale, held at the ...

The Monarch Research Project, based in Marion, launched the Planting Forward initiative immediately following the 2020 derecho. The program was created with two main goals, replanting and educating.

It's almost spring! And March 12 is National Plant a Flower Day, the perfect day to bask in the sunlight and plant flowers that will help pollinators like the endangered eastern monarch butterfly. The ...

Monarch butterflies have multiple generations in a year, including the final one, which migrates south to wintering grounds ...

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